HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1914-08-20, Page 7A WALL OF SOAP.
One yeales sales of Comfort Soap xne,ane
enough soap to build a wall 15 feet high
and 29 miles long. Think of ttl 'Enough
to oompletely eurrouud The Ciby of
Toronto.
AUDACITY OF UEILAN RAIDS
Neither
German Artillery Nor Infantry fias Shown
Brilliancy
A despatch from London says:
The Post eorrespondent with the
Belgian army sends the following:
'The success of the Belgian arras
• has been, astonishing. Everywhere
along the line of outposts the Ger-
man meets with baffling checks.
Like an angry dog faced by a por-
cupine the vaunted Prussian army
• standpuzzled.
"I do not wish to exaggerate the
facts Or to pretend that the Bel-
gians are winning a series of im-
portant battles. Their successes so
• far are all intrinsically small, but
they are making a habit ef success.
All dread of the Prussians is gone,
and that is a most valuable gain.
"The Belgians jokingly wonder
when the German military skill will
begin to show itself. The audacity
of the Chian raids seems nothing
more than the audacity of bewilder-
ment, like men who are passed from.
,behind. In contact with the Bel-
gian cavalry the TJhlans shoav in-
feriority. Moreover, neither the
artillery- nor infantry has shown
brilliancy.
"As an ,actual fact the attitude of
the Germans to -day is almost de-
fensive; certainly it is not offenSive
in any spirited sense."
The German casualties in the en-
gagement at Haelen Wednesday
were 3,000 dead and wounded. The
Germans aPpttrently sacrificed their
men without any scruples. During
the fight the Germans were obliged
to pass two bridges over the Gethe
and Velpe rivers, where they were
exposed to a, heavy fire. The re-
tiring Germans left piles of dead
and wounded at these bridges.
• ADMIRAL VON TIRPITZ,
Commander or the German nava/
forces .
socausT LEADER SHOT.
Refused to Perform Military Ser.
vice for Germany.
A despatch from London says:
The Daily Citizen, organ of the
Labor party, says ib was learned
from a reliable authority that Dr.
Karl • Liebknecht, the German So-
cialist leader, has been shot for re•
. hieing to do military service. The
Daily Citizen says that the story
was brought to London by a Ger-
man refugee; who reported that
Berlin, owing to the shortage of
food, was in a virtual state of revo-
lution. Dr. Liebknecht was an offi-
cer of the reserves, and was called
upon for service. Be refused to
respond on conscientious grounds,
whereupon, according to the story,
a detachment of soldiers was sent
to his residence. He was taken to
the military barracks and court-
martialed. After a .thort trial he
was eonvicted and shot by a pla-
toon of infantrymen, It is also re-
ported that Rosa Luxemburg, the
noted Socialist writer, who declared
that soldiers were maltreated in
the army, has been shot.
CORNERED BY BRITISH.
THE KAISER'S PLANS.
To Reaeh Petetsburg By Way
Of Finland.
A despatch from. London says:
That Germany plane to rush St.
Petersburg by way of Finland is
indicated by news which has been
received here. • From information
from a thoroughly reliable source
it is learned that the project was
cubated a long time ago, ancl that
it canteariplated a rising • of the
Finns, to whom large quantities of
arms were aeeretly shipped from
Switzerland. The information gains
especial interest from the following
telegram from Holger R. Angelo, a
correspondent in Copenhagen:
"The Russians have dynamited the
greater qsart' of Ifelsingfors and
other south Finnish cities, accord-
ing to a private despatch received
here. Residents of these cities were
sent away and enormous masses of
troops have been assembled in the
expectation of a German attack. It
is thought that the rumors of •a, sea
fight near the Aaland Islands ori-
ginated from the dynamite explo-
sions at Helsingfors."
Tin MAIL SERVICE.
Postmasters Not to Acieept it For
Certain Countries.
A despatch from Ottawa says:
The Post -office Department has is-
sued the following memorandum :
"The British Post -office advises
that the mail service 'between the
nited Kingdom and Germany, Ger-
man colonies, Austria-Hungary and
Luxemburg is entirely suspended
and that mails for other European
countries can be received for de-
spatch as opportunity offers, but
that all services are irregular ond
ipmertain. In accordance with this,
postmasters throughout the Do-
minion will, until further advised,
not accept mail matter for Ger-
many, German colonies, Austria-
Hungary and Luxemburg for on-
ward transmissinn by our Canadian
service to the United Kingdom."
SILK FOR ENGLAND.
Shipment Front New York 'Will Ile
Convoyed by Warships.
A despatch from Chicago says:
Two hundred and fifty thousand
pounds of Japanese silk were rnsh-
ed through here on Thursday for
shipment to England. The con-
signment, which was shipped in
bond and closely guarded by secret
service men, wa,s the second in-
Stalment of a total shipment of
nearly a million pounds whieh will
go forward to England this week,
according to plans, under convoy
of two British warships. The silk
will be pub on a White Star liner
and the warships will pick the mer-
chantman up ontside the three-mile
limit.
ON THE NORTH SEA.
ill media n 1 Vessels Resume C ar ri a g e
of Food.
Germany Far Eastern Squadron So
Reported.
A despatch *from London says:
The Hong Kong correspondent of
• the Exchange Telegraph Company
says it is reported here that the
British fleet in the Far Ea,st hae
succeeded in cornering ,the German
• Far Eastern squadron. Weight is
• lent the report, the correspondent
adds, by the fact that progress
along the coast is resuming ibs nor-
mal basis. •
Comment ,on Events
Tho Difference.
•
The dietinetien between a ''tato of war"
and a edeolaration of 'war" is confueing
to the 'lay reader. Deelteration of a etate
ef was, 'according to intereatioal custom,
jo tornralinfoimetion published he the
'world that nouteale and all' °there 11nue5
take cognizance' of exeeptional conditions
in the country extending the liotice; that
many of the rights and privileges accord.
ed in .time of complete understanding be.
tween goeernmente els thereby ahrogitt-
ed. While notice of a OtOtO of war doee
not necessarily nor often specify what
• theee right's and privilege; are, they :ire
well understood to mean freedom oi move.
, ment by individuals, for one. Passport.
right of eonamon prevalence ere' nuilie
fled. Inquisitive activitiee, especeally in'
the vicinity of fortreeeee and °ernes, are
' certain to result, sereet end ..inearcer.
etion on euspichm that' they ere the ee-
tivitlee of spies. Prieettely owned pro.
perty, such ee steamships, ewe liable. to
• ;be inetantly empreceed lute government
eervice. matte arc liable to defleetion and
" delay bemuse of military exigencies -and
00 011. Remarkable Coincidences.
As 00. the titilee-' of paet wars -
Most newspepers that have deSigneted
the European trouble by a spec:lite teble
heve referred to It as the "Reese-Auetrian
Wen" We prolyebly ought not to.00nsider
SIR JOHN FRENCH, this arrangement ae tligniflaanit, but if we
who has been appointed inspectore
judge ft byConeider the historic record alone, it
General ot the British army. the Feanco-Pruseian the elueko-Rassian;,
'.PRE GERMAN VERSION.
Claim ti) Have Taken 2080.French
Prisoners in Alsace.
A despatch from New York says.;
The first despatch direct from Ber-
lin uncensored by the 'authorities
of the nations at war with Germany
was received on Thursday by the
Associated Press throughthe medi-
um of the Goldschinidt, Wireless
Company's Station ab Tuckerton,
NJ. The message contained the
important information that during
the fighting at' Muelliansen con-
siderably over 1,000 French officers
and soldiers were taken prisoners
by the Germans. who also ca,ntured
four cannon; while in another fight
with the French on the border of
Lorraine, lurther to the noth, the
Germans also: took 1,000 prisoners.
The despatch adds that German soil
has been cleared of French troops.
WILL SEIZE DRUGS.
•
A despatch from 'London says :
Steainers with ,passengers and pro-
visions continue toarrive from
Scanclina,vian North Sea ports;
coastwise traffic, ie being .steadily
rest:toed and trawlers are geing
about their legitimate business.
Two cargoes of wheat Fr011l the Plate
River and ptovision steamers ,frorn
lteiterclaimand Copenhagen arrived
on Thursday. Among the passen-
gers from Copenhagen was jiiles
Cantbon, the former French Ambas-
sador at Berlin.
TO REMAIN A.T HOME.
Kaiser Will Not Start for Belgian
• Frontier as Intended.
A. despatch from London ,sa,,ye:
A special despatch received here, on
Thursday from Rome ,says that Em-
peror William, who it was ,tniperted
intended tna..ing a ylsib Lo Aix -la -
s115 w. hIWARD GuscHEN,
151511 Amhassader. in Whit, ,
Chapelle, near the Belgian frontier,
delivered the British deciaratice 0e has oeen persuaded not to make the
' journy.
British GOvernment Will Keep
Prices Down.
A despatch from London says:
The British Government, haying
successfully coped with the attempt
to raise the prices of food, an-
nounces 'that certain drugs, the
supply of which is limited, and the
price of which has been raised in
some instances fifty per cent., by
the wholesale dealers, will be taken
possession of 'if ,exhorbitant prices
are charged.
GOVERNMENT HELD UP. -*
Animals for the Canadian Contin-
gent May Be Commandeered.
A despatch from Ottawa says:
When the local military authorities
attempted to buy horses at Lans-
downe Park to -day for the local
unit to be attached to the overseas
contingent dealers asked such prices
that the purchasing committee
threatened to commandeer the re-
quired number of animals at a price
to be fixed by a military veterinary.
No horses were bought. The prices
asked ranged from $250 to $350
each.
the emanieleamerican; tho Rue:so-Japan-
ese and the Turko-Bealtan-in all of these
the nation or Power designeted by tbei
last :word en the compound designation
has been the victor. In this hard-heade{l
practica1 age -we will say that thie means
Teething snoxe then mere coincidence
which aceempanies rt //meter of rhetorical
or orthographicel convenience; and in ell
mobability'that ie the exact truth. Yet
it le a MOdt. remarkable coincidenee that
by the voluutary and unconecioue 5111.
rangement of a coinpound name the milli-
bary history of the world ehoulei be pro-
phesied.
A Great Discovery.
Oxygen wee discovered 140 years ago.
Joseph Priestly, a. dissentin,g English
clergyman who bad turned eeientiet, ob.
twined the previously unknown gas be ig-
niting mercuric oxide, Tke oxygen he
thus produced he called "dephlogieticatecl
air."
/le and Benjarnin Franklin had often
diecussed the myeterioup cornpaeition of
air and water. DTo one up to thee time
had determined ethitt element it was in
both wheel' so invigorated the physical
energies of man, It Is said that Priestly
made his actual discovery of the oxygen
white experimenting in u, brewery nem.
his home in -England.
A monument stands in England to com-
memorate Prieetly'e discovery. Were he
alive he could. read of thousands of lives
which are saved as s result of hie work.
Oxygen es the dnly gas capeble eS artifi-
cia3ly eupporting reepiration, and is Tre.
pealed:1y used in the sick chamber to null
a patient through a credo.
Ifelmets equipped with oxygen atbach.
ments enable the divereto go. to ocean
depths, the aviator to ascend into rare-
fied air, the fireman to deecend ento gas
filled mines.
So wide are its uses that, eome 4,000,000
cubic feet of this gas aro bottled in the
United States every year.
MEN FROM 11.5. ENLIST.
Many Offers From Canadians and
British South of the Border.
A despatch fon Ottawa, says:
Many offers ,are being received here
from men in the United States who
are 'willing to go to the front with
the Canadian militia. Thursday.
morning George Fernie, a resident
of Chicago ,and :a, well-known golf
expert and teacher, reported at
one of the recruiting stations and
was accepted. Fernie is a native of
Scotland, but has been in the
States for some time. ,
BELL TELEPHONE CO. MELT'S.
Will
Hold Positions Open for Ent-
1/10Yes Sent to the Front.
A despatch from Ottawa sayi:
The executive of the Bell Telephone
Company has announced that em-
ployes who are sent to the front in
the present war will have their posi-
tions kept open for them, and those
whose families are dependent upon,
and net otherwise provided for, will
receive half -pay daring their ab-
sence in the field.
Blobbs—"Which do you prefer—
life in the country or in the city '1"
Dobbs—"I'm not sore, it depeade miles an hoer. But the inventors desigee
on whether I am in a mood to he at_ call .for a, fifth motoe, Which wile probably
ipereeee this speed. Each motor can be
tacked by a cow or a motor ar."
Sex Haters.
Over in Germany the 'women have or-
ganized an "aesomation to combat the
forming or organizations." Thet isn't bad.
In fact. within certain limitations it is a
sensible venture, but when in defiance of
.purpose it has organized a :moiety
elmistened "Los NOM Mann," which means
"away from man," whose object is 40 let
man aeone 10 .hemself end not to have
anything to do with lame, it has entered
ueon a deeert re:tech. It -will never flour.
We have heard of wornandiatens and
man,Itater,s, but that is all gammon, Since
-the vaet majority of humanity are good
men and women, it will be empossible to
keep them apaat. And something is wrong,
or at least something is the matter with
the man or woman if either persists in
keeping away from the other -simply or
She ground of sex. If mankind were 11111110
up of man-haters and womanhatere the
human race -would commit suichle by
slow Deleon.
Shabby Signboards. •
OLD-TIME REMEDY
MAKES PURE BLOOD
• Purify 'your blood by taking
TIood's Sarsaparilla. This medi-
cine has been and still is the people's
medicine because of ifs reliable
character,and its wonderful success
in the treatment of the common els-
.
eases and ailments -scrofula, ca-
tarrh, rheumatism, dyspepsia, loss
of appetite'that tired feeliug,
general debility.
Hood's Sarsaparilla bas been .
tested linty years. Get it today.
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W. J. MITCHELL,
Publisher News-Rat:DM
CLIZTON, ONTARIO
A citixen in 'another two, writing to the
Meal puom In the interest of a "clean-
up" of the town, suggeets M business men,
to put en new signe or xepaint their old
ones This is exeellent edvice. 511 ie the
Indic:Won .of a lack of onterpriee and sue.
cess in it man's bueinese to have the mine
old 'weather beaten sign hung over the
place of basiness for many years, pest.
It shows CM Man le trudging slowly
along in the old beaten tracks that he has
been liersuing for years. It is notAce 10
the eniblic that the proprietor takes no
pride in hisbuelnees or has reelleee
eneugh for the community to brighten uP
the town with a, new coat of paint.
An old worn-out and shabby sign ad-
vertises an old worn-out and shabby busl.
ness, 515 se,yel-"I am in the rut just
where I WOG twenty or thirty years aeo.
I have nothing now, and 'what I ha,ve 11
WOMO oft than it used to be."thal is the
message of every old, dingy, shabby sign.
If the 'men who owns it doesee care
enough for himself to renew it, ho should
for the town where his lot 'is unhappily
cue..
normally's Handicap.
A evriter in The London Megazine says
that finarieitelly Gormeny is 'wholly unfit
to go into a eeriou,3 war, not for lack or
money in the public treaeury, but because
business abroad Sma been coeducted on
oil meth long credits that 15 will be in,
possible for heavy borrowers to Meet the
demands which tbr baelce will be sure to
malce upon them in ceder to meeb the
cane. of their depositors. Ite mum the
ethole-eituation up by ,myeig" that the
German Intlitaey system is the finest piece
of anachinety in the world, but that the
several parts of it are "in au everlesting
state of wailed friction *eh the other."
Events seem likely to demonstrate very
soon how much foundetion there is for
this criticism,
A Russian "Airbus."
The enormoue biplane inveuted byIgor
Sikorsky, a Russian. has,otimied sixteen
pasoengere and. a, pilot on a ,short Sight,
and eight passengers and a pilet, 'on e'
flight that lasted two hours and six min-
utes. The wings spread 114 feet, and the
body and bail are 60 feet long. Besides
the pilot's quarters the "airbus" contains
Tun observation balcony, a wnsh room,
and an enelesed Passengere' cabin 'that el
lighted by electricity, heeted by gae, and
furnished with cheers.
The machine es driven by four 100-1,oe05.
Power motors and with thie power [supply
has been driven at a speed of sixty -sex
started independently of the others, and
all are controlled from t.he driver's seat
by compressed
The great spread of the wings increases
the lifting power of the machine. 'Phe
airbus, empty, weiges 8,250 .pounds, and
it has carried more than so ton of addl.
tional 'weight. This carrying eapacity
makes the airbus of great ability in -war.
The Russian government has ordered four
more biplanes of this type for the uee of
the army. This order is part of Ruseia's
large increase in aeronenticel equipment,
which already inoludee more than 300
aeroplanes within two YOOTO.
Ringed With steel on land and sea Ger-
many ;soared eltyward to find her place
In the sum 7.'he elaadow of a. Ituseian
"aithus" now fella acroes her flight. It
Se commonplace and worse than the rush-
ing Dreadnoughte.
RUSSIANS CAPTURE TOWNS
Austrian Garrisons Were Routed and Sustainde
Heavy Casualities
A despatch from SC Petersburg;
says: A Russian force has taken
the Town of Sokal, Austrian Gali-
cia, by assault, inflicting heavy
casualties on the- Austrian garri-
son, according to a, semi-official an-
nouncement, The Austrian garri-
son consisted of two infantry bat-
talioris, a regiment of Lancerii, and
a regiment of Hus,sars. Alter dis-
lodging them the Russian ea,valry
pursued the Austrians across the
River Bug a,nd blew up two bridges
and a viaduct.
Several houses in Sokal, which is
45 miles north-east ' of Lemberg,
were set on fire and burned to the
ground by the Russian troopbe,
(MUM civilians had fired from them
on the attacking force.
The Russians captured some mili-
tary building ineterial, pontoons
and telegraph instruments,
_According -to a semi-officia,1 des-
patch, the German troops before
Kalisz, Russian Poland,.lia,ve issued
a proclamation stating that every
tenth inhabitant of Kalisz will be
shot in the event Of further resis-
tance.
A mass was celebrated on Thurs-
day at the Russian Ministry of Fi-
nances in memory of M. Nokoloff,
the City Treasurer of Kalisz, said
to have been shot by the German
troops while at his post,
The Grand Duke Constantine-
yitch ha e given the famous marble
palace in St. Petersburg as a hos-
pital.
Cur English Letter
Chinese Opium Hell Found In London.
Ittikls on tbe"opeurn dens in London's
Chinatown, a district near the docke, have
thrown new light on this sonlid quarter,
which was Gana° known until nineteen
Chinese were brought to anower in police
. courts. The ecetion ie a mass of opium
dens and gambling houses. Oluinese
ore .off the oriental thins in port have been
Sobbed oe their earning. There are about
800 of these eailors and cabin boys in port
at 0 time.
Charitable societies 11fre nOW organizing
a fund to build in thle district a hotel, so-
cial club and institute, with °lessee in
English and eeamanslup. Arrangemente
will be made by whieh the.eallors may
send home part of their earnings. The
mime of the new organization ie the
Chinese lilerehant Service Guild.
Count Von Moltke.
Count, Von Moltke, the chief of
the grand general staff of the Ger-
man army, now engaged in war-
ring against France, Russia, Hol-
land and Belgium.
Von Moltke is the nephew of the
great Field Marshal Von Moltke
and rejoices in the Christian name
of julius. In the same way that
the Field Marshal was celebrated
Lor his taciturnity, so is his nephew
and euccesser as Chief of the Gen-
eral Staff, renowned for never &mil-
ing. Be always has an appearance,
not merely of profound gloom, but
even of downright misery, impress-
ed on his fat countenance. 'Us
'Said that the Kaiser addresses him
as ','the Gloomy julius." Gloomy
he is for his imperial master has
proved a hard man to satisfy. The
Kaiser himself has assumed su-
preme command of the forces, with
his gloomy general as his Chief of
Staff.
The Hardest English .Phrase.
While the .plirase "alittle bit" io so easy
for /leave Engeleh epeaking pereons to
Pronounce thee it would seem to make a
weak teat for sobriety, it has been picked
out from 'all other tongue twisters by
Profeesor Walter Itippmann of the Tine
varsity of London for ,foreigners te Prate
flouncing Emeliele Professor Rippman
told the atm:leas from some eighteen
reebly, has nothing else to fear in pro -
Anyone who can eay "a little bit" dor-
Mee on.
foreign countries, who are hero to teke
the eriecial summer course of lee:Lames ar-
ranged for their benefit.
Use beginner In Englesh weal" gets
no closer to "a Immo bit" team leel
beet" or "a, leet bid." But when he eleeo
master it, the classic "prunes, prisme and
Persimmone" and "plaited a, peck of pick.
led 30515500" 00100 comparatively easy.
Bachelors' Club Ancient,
The Bechelons' Club, otethich the Prince
of Wales has become an honorary meta;
bor, dates back to 1801, aud is eauerlticifly
a yeeng zanies club. Members must be
bachelors ()reelection and should they 011-'
ter into matrimony meet stand the hazard'
of 1.1111 ballot and pay a line et Mt
The 'association of royalty with club.
land has not Ithwaye peen entirely' happy.
When George IV, was Prince of Wales ho
wae anxious to become a eneuthex of
Brooks's, paxtey in order to have oppor.
tunibies of meeting Charles Fox. IL/ was
the mete* member eeected up to thee time
without a baleot, and wae received with
acclamation on bis first appeuxente, but
his chief reason for joining was that he
might be able to carry on a vendeeta.
against Pitt, a -member of White's, When
White's gave a hall the Prince torn:enact-
ed his friende not to go to it, and emit his
own tioket. and tbat of the Duke of York
to be ,sold at a public libeary.
The Duke of Yorlee nseoeurtion with
Brooks's nearly cost him his 1150, for in
the course of e drunken frolic be event to
the club and found it elfut for the tight,
whereupon' .110 and his eorapanions forced
their way in .and smashed everything in
eight., tile a welter, beeleving them to be
housebrelelcem, came down with a blunder-
buss end was about to fire when the Duke
"ONA11 recognized. King Ethvardes .difference
with White's committee on the subject of
smoking will be reectiled.
• Tapestry Art Not Lost,
• Tapeetty pleys only n. small part in the
embellishment of the modern lune% but
the art iv by no means a lost one. Morels
& Cmhave just produced a fine piece of
work, the design of which ie based on oue
of Beenard Partridges finest, Put& car
tomes.
Te the tapeetry the Ring ie represented
standing on a dale 'receiving from the
four virtues, Peace, Wisdom, Fortitede,
end .luetice, his .ehield, halenet, sword and
spear. lees right hand rests on le chaxter
1111E1 behind is 0 ettnopy decorated with
the anne of the principal colonies.
In etyle iterenfrosents the araftsmanshle
of the fifteenth eentury rather than the
more elaborate methods of the Gobelins
factory. Though wonderfully .eirmietuoue
in effect the tapestry is ,woven with greet,
eimplicity. Few coldns hevo been uted,
four or five at most, and the ehading is
broee and expressive. 'The design has
great &election.
Capt. Cook's Statue Doesn't Please.
The statue of fleet. Cook, now erected
en the Mall, ebows the navigator in a
bronze three cornered hat with hie back to
the Admireety, gazing sternly at the Lon.
don County Council ollices. Sir 'Internee
Precic, the sculptor, has given him a coil
of rape to stand on and put a fat iele•
scope in his bend. If, as Prince Arthur of
Cennaugheauggeeted,, severee London state
ues should be scrapped; this, the 'latest
,additien to their xandes, would poseible
not exist for :thy coneiderable period. •
Paper Dish's Day at Hand.
The At:eerier:el paper cup threetene to
invade England, and with it the paper
abet@ ancleumbler. A speaker aethe Black.
pool sanitery conference eounded 0 wave
Mg agree/et crockery.
The best washed dish, lie seid, retaine
some germe. It is cleaner and eater to
burn the whole service after each meal.
This euthlese counsel equares only too
well with the neceesities of present day
housekeeping. No doirbt muck of the ten-
sion beeweekl modern maid and MiONCCOO
amulet go et 0 troke if., broken diehee,
were no longer a posaible cause of et
King's Club is Plain.
The Jockey Club xoome in Newmarket,
width are set aside for the 1150 of royalty
axe remarkable for their unpretentious -
nese. They are pleinly, even meagrely --
furreithed. The wells: am hung with a few,.
porting prints, while the.emoking iounge
bee the plainest benteventi cheira. It is in
thjs department that the King epoxide
meet of his Mule when 01 the club.
Telegrapher's Cramp Crows,
Xt was Gehl ey a delegate to the recent
eongrees of the International Fedeeetion
of Postel and Telegraph Servants thee
telegrapher's cramp le uncreaeing in Eng-
land at alt alarming rate. The increase
is attributed to the :system of speeding un
which has been introduced into the tele-
gsaphio service.
The committee of inquiry found that the
disease is seated in 'the central nexvous
system and is a weekening or breakdown
of the cerebral contamling mechanism la
coneequence of ,museuler strain. A. tele-
grail/her euffering from the malady in an
atIvanced etage can expeet no cure unless
Ise or she is removed completely fee= the
service. Tho forearm, hand and Angers
become flume and oesese to answer to the
nerves zeal muscles. In (some came the
Power to hold a knife and fork is lost.
BATTLESHIP ON WHICH PRINCE ALBERT IS SERVING
a
TI is is an actual photograph of H.M.S. Coningwoocl, a Dreadeotight, on which the second eon. of theKing is seeing fictivf? service, News
of this yeesel's part in the conflict and of her safety will be eagerly awaited. The vessel is shown at target practice in this picture,
Grand Duke "Nieolas Niekolovitch,
the Commander -in -Chief of the
Russian armies.
LARGEST COTN IN T'LlE WORLD
Swedish Copper—Weighs Thirtv-one
Pounds.
Weighing 31 pounds, a single cop-
per coin hearing tbe imprint of the
Swedish crown and the name of
the monarch, Charles X. Gustavus,
during whose reign it was issued,
has been acquired by the American
Numismatic Society. The pieoe
represents eight "daler," equiva-
lent to $5.20 in American money.
It measures 331/, by 13 inches, and
in form is a rectangular ingot,
bearing five large stamps punched
in the eentre and four corners.
These impressions were made in or-
der to prevent a reduction in value
by elipping. The coin was struck
at Avesta, Sweden, in 1659, and is
a type which' was minted eontinu-
ously for 110 years, although the
eight-daler plates were leaned only
a short time and axe now quite
rare. This epechnen was dredged
out of the harbor at Riga, Russia.
Large-sized coins of this type, were
first, bronght out in 1049 during the
reign of Christina, the daughter of
Gustavus Adolphus. The objet
MOS to form an outlet for the pro-
ducts of the tountry's copper mines
without depreciating the value of
the metal.
PATRICIA.' 5 REGIMENT,
Men of a Good Class are ,Eurolling.
In MOntreal.
A despatch from 1VIontreal says:
The opening of a recruiting station
Sor the Princess Patricia' s Light
Infantry Regiment at 596 St. Cath-
erine west, was followed by a, large
influx of recruits, and those that
were enrolled were described on
Thursday by the recruiting officer
as a fine elase of men. Over fifty
have already been passed, while as
many have been turned down be-
cause of 1)ad eyesight, etc.
The Size of the Waves .
The most experienced sons 01 (110
sea are apt to have very exagger-
ated ideas of the size ,of towering
waves which break over the vessels
during sea storms, and 'frequently
waves are reported as haying reach -
an almost impossible height. As
a matter of fact it is extvaordieary
for a wave ,to attain a height of, sev-
enty Feet, while the average size of
great Wieeee is considerably less.
The monntainous ,zeas often encoun-
tercel by lines in -Rio North Atlan-
tic usually measure about forty
feet, though I.,he upward -shooting,,
watbbr attains a
greater altitude. The big ayayea of
the North Pacific tarely measure
more than thirty feet, while the
highest Wave eVor met by ,an AUS -i
tralian-bound liner in bhe
Pacific reached fifty feet. The,
waves of intd-oeetinure much larger
than those encountered elaewhere,,
and it is very ,rare, that e. height 4
even twenty feet is reached by a:
wave in the Mediterranean. '